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Java Concurrency in Practice cover

1. Java Concurrency in Practice

by Brian Goetz

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中国现代语法 cover

2. 中国现代语法

by 王力

Dubbie: The Double-Headed Eagle cover

3. Dubbie: The Double-Headed Eagle

by Eduard Habsburg-Lothringen

Selling Microsoft: Sales Secrets from Inside the World's Most Successful Company cover

4. Selling Microsoft: Sales Secrets from Inside the World's Most Successful Company

by Doug Dayton

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Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business Into a Sales Machine with the $100 Million Best Practices of Salesforce.com cover

5. Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business Into a Sales Machine with the $100 Million Best Practices of Salesforce.com

by Aaron Ross, Marylou Tyler

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The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully cover

6. The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully

by Gerald M. Weinberg

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Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization cover

7. Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

by Ed Conway

The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation cover

8. The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation

by Matthew Dixon, Brent Adamson

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Hope Is Not a Strategy: The 6 Keys to Winning the Complex Sale: The 6 Keys to Winning the Complex Sale cover

9. Hope Is Not a Strategy: The 6 Keys to Winning the Complex Sale: The 6 Keys to Winning the Complex Sale

by Rick Page

Tales of the Teahouse Retold: Investiture of the Gods cover

10. Tales of the Teahouse Retold: Investiture of the Gods

by Katherine Liang Chew

Being And Event cover

11. Being And Event

by Alain Badiou

The Solution Selling Fieldbook: Practical Tools, Application Exercises, Templates and Scripts for Effective Sales Execution cover

12. The Solution Selling Fieldbook: Practical Tools, Application Exercises, Templates and Scripts for Effective Sales Execution

by Keith M. Eades, James N. Touchstone, Timothy T. Sullivan

Eats, Shites & Leaves: Crap English and How to Use It (The Shite series) cover

13. Eats, Shites & Leaves: Crap English and How to Use It (The Shite series)

by A. Parody

The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World cover

14. The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World

by William Dalrymple

Lions' Commentary on Unix cover

15. Lions' Commentary on Unix

by John Lions

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Physics from Symmetry (Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics) cover

16. Physics from Symmetry (Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics)

by Jakob Schwichtenberg

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The Golden Road cover

17. The Golden Road

by William Dalrymple

Professional Cookery cover

18. Professional Cookery

by Daniel R. Stevenson, Patricia M. G. Scobie

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The Hank Show: How a House-Painting, Drug-Running DEA Informant Built the Machine That Rules Our Lives cover

19. The Hank Show: How a House-Painting, Drug-Running DEA Informant Built the Machine That Rules Our Lives

by McKenzie Funk

Project Hail Mary: A Novel cover

20. Project Hail Mary: A Novel

by Andy Weir

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Most Secret War (Penguin World War II Collection) cover

21. Most Secret War (Penguin World War II Collection)

by R.V. Jones

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The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour cover

22. The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour

by James D. Hornfischer

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Guards! Guards!: A Novel of Discworld (Discworld, 8) cover

23. Guards! Guards!: A Novel of Discworld (Discworld, 8)

by Terry Pratchett

The Money Formula: Dodgy Finance, Pseudo Science, and How Mathematicians Took Over the Markets cover

24. The Money Formula: Dodgy Finance, Pseudo Science, and How Mathematicians Took Over the Markets

by Paul Wilmott, David Orrell

The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe) cover

25. The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe)

by Peter Hopkirk

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Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) cover

26. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading (A Touchstone book) cover

27. How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading (A Touchstone book)

by Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren

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Processing Recursively Structured Data: A Generic Approach to Parsing and Transforming Data with a Recursive Structure, Illustrated by a Practical Implementation cover

28. Processing Recursively Structured Data: A Generic Approach to Parsing and Transforming Data with a Recursive Structure, Illustrated by a Practical Implementation

by Norbert Pfaffinger